IT’S OFFICIAL: HOLLYWOOD HAS RUN OUT of original ideas.If you thought 2006 was bad, just wait. In 2007, the studios will give up on... More >>

Disney’s Oscar Campaign Is A-Crock-AlyptoOkay, I wish this were a bad joke, but it’s real: Disney’s behind-the-scenes Oscar... More >>

Mel Versus the Mental MidgetsIn yet another of Hollywood’s gross miscalculations, the filmmaker whom the Industry declared dead and buried... More >>

EVERY YEAR, ONE OF THE MAJOR Hollywood talent agencies conducts a running tally of all studio jobs snagged by screenwriters. In 2005, there were... More >>

Bond vs. BirdsDoes anybody really give a shit about James Bond, or, in this case, James Bourne, anymore? Does anybody give a crap if a flock of... More >>

EVEN ON OSCAR NIGHT, it’s hard to imagine talent like Owen Wilson, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Sean Penn, Michelle... More >>

MORE AND MORE, THE NEWSPAPER on Spring Street is beginning to resemble Deal or No Deal. Forget all those ink-stained news males: bring on the... More >>

FOR MORE THAN A DECADE NOW, rap and hip-hop have made bling the thing, and no one more than Russell Simmons, who even started his own... More >>

49deadline_boratSnakes on Kazakhstan?It may seem far-fetched to compare Borat with Snakes on a Plane. But both may be prime examples of how... More >>

This prime-time season, the uglies have it.No one could ever have predicted that a Japanese geek (Masi Oka, a Brown University grad in math and... More >>